Five US states where climate change could be disastrous - BBC News
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... Image copyright Getty Images Climate change is expected to increase the frequency of extreme weather events around the world. One US group has given the 50 states a report card, ranking the risk of potential disasters and long-term dangerous changes. Most US states are well-prepared for current natural disasters, but across the country, states have done little to factor in how climate change ...
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Moroccan solar plant to bring energy to a million people - BBC News
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... of Atlantic wind, mountain hydro power and scorching Saharan sun. The king's plans are being enacted by environment minister Hakima el Haite. She told me: "We are convinced that climate change is an opportunity for our country." As part of its national commitment to the Paris climate conference, Morocco has pledged to decrease CO2 emissions 32% below business-as-usual by 2030, ...
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Canada's Alberta to introduce economy-wide carbon tax in 2017 | Reuters
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... country's controversial oil sands, said on Sunday it will implement an economy-wide tax on carbon emissions in 2017, addressing long-standing criticism it is not doing enough to combat climate change. The provincial government estimated the plan, including a pledge to phase out pollution from coal-fired electricity generation by 2030 and a limit on emissions from the province's oil sands ...
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Prince Charles: Climate change failure is a factor behind Syrian crisis - Telegraph
... years ago that if we didn't tackle these issues you would see ever greater conflict over scarce resources and ever greater difficulties over drought, and the accumulating effect of climate change, which means that people have to move. “And, in fact, there's very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria, funnily enough was a drought that lasted ...
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Paris Can Be a Key Step | Robert Stavins
... from a brief trip to Paris two days before the horrific events of November 13th, which have shocked and saddened civilized people everywhere. I was in Paris for discussions regarding climate change policy at OECD headquarters. Now, I'm preparing to return to Paris in less than two weeks with my colleagues from the Harvard Project on Climate Agreements (I've inserted a list of our forthcoming "p ...
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Peak District bird of prey project results 'disappointing' - BBC News
... and short-eared owl - had aimed to restore numbers to the levels seen around the time of the designation. Numerous theories have been put forward to explain the decline, including climate change, predation, disturbance and availability of food. However, Mr Thomas said none had been proven. He said in the case of short-eared owls the fluctuation in numbers was likely to be caused by the ...
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A Point of View: Has the Catholic Church really changed? - BBC News
... democracy and community as a way to get better shepherds for the flock. Enter a religion defined by God's mercy and inclusion, with a strong voice on issues like market excess and climate change and where men and women shared spiritual power. In a world under attack from testosterone-driven fundamentalism - I could have written exactly those same words before the events in Paris, but ...
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Weekend Edition: The week's best reads - BBC News
... Alex Marshall. While there have been some well known songs about the environment in general, such as Michael Jackson's Earth Song (pictured), there haven't been any big hits about climate change. Why not? Where are all the climate change songs? Image copyright Istock "Very good article," commented Andrew Kev Mathyssen. Only 50% of people who are HIV-positive are aware they have the ...
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India backs 2 degree global warming limit - French ministry source | Reuters
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... PARIS Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi clearly backs the goal of limiting global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels, a source close to French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Saturday. Leaders from 195 nations will meet from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11 in Paris to try to nail down an agreement after the last global climate change conference in Copenhagen in ...
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Our obsession with global warming will cost us dear - Telegraph
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Bangladesh fires up large-scale solar to boost power generation | Reuters
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... by Syful Islam; editing by James Baer and Laurie Goering :; Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers humanitarian news, climate change, women's rights, trafficking and corruption. Visit www.trust.org/climate) ...
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Professor, wife convicted of fraud in $700,000 NASA contract - Yahoo News
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... that Lehigh University engineering professor Yujie (yew-jee) Ding and his wife, Yuliya (yewl-ya) Zotova, told NASA that their startup company would develop a sensor to track climate change. The contract allowed some work to be done by Lehigh students, but prosecutors say they instead did all the work. Defense lawyers argue that the research found in the couple's Upper Saucon ...
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UN official: Over 120 leaders to attend Paris climate summit - Yahoo News
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... UNITED NATIONS (AP) The attacks in Paris are affecting crucial climate change talks in the French capital starting later this month, but more than 120 world leaders strongly support the conference and have confirmed they will attend, a senior U.N. official said Friday. Janos Pasztor, the U.N. assistant secretary-general for climate change, told a news conference that preparations and some ...
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Does Obama's Backtrack on Biofuels Undermine His Climate Change Message in Paris? | Paul Alexander
... Despite the terrorist attacks in Paris, French officials have announced the United Nations Convention on Climate Change, also taking place in Paris, will proceed as planned on November 30. The conference is expected to produce a blueprint to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, the main cause of global warming. President Barack Obama will be among the nearly 120 world leaders who are expected to ...
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Weekend Roundup: Paris Attacks Upend Concepts of War, Security and Alliances | Nathan Gardels
... agenda for global peace is not served by making Islam a scapegoat." Former French environment minister Corinne Lepage looks ahead in the coming weeks to a successful Paris summit on climate change as the best response to ISIS brutality. Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change, hopes the Paris summit will mean a farewell to fossil fuels. In ...
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Do we underestimate the power of plants and trees? - BBC News
... processing. It's necessary to write a symphony and do linear algebra, but it's not the only solution for integrating information. "We're living in a rapidly-changing environment - global warming, changes in precipitation, shifting populations. If we don't understand how a plant senses and responds to its environment and then adapts, we might find ourselves in a big problem 50 to 100 years ...
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Satellite will map Earth's plant glow - BBC News
... for Europe to have some kind of space-borne carbon monitoring capability - a tool to check that countries are implementing policies to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Esa officials are likely to ask member states at the agency's next big ministerial gathering to fund CarbonSat's instrument through to a prototype stage. Discussions will also be held in ...
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Anti-Apec protests take place in Manila - BBC News
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... ground against protesters. They are also playing loud dance music to drown out the unified voices of the protesters. World leaders at the summit have been discussing issues such as climate change and regional economic co-operation. But the ongoing dispute among several Asian countries who have overlapping claims in the resource-rich South China Sea has also been in focus. US President ...
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Could This Be the Solution To Climate Change? | Renat Heuberger
... In order to halt climate change, close to 100% of the world's scientists agree that we must drastically reduce the level of greenhouse gas emissions. But how? I explored some key areas to address during my recent interview with the World Economic Forum and would like to share them with you here: As one fair and efficient way to reduce the level of greenhouse gas emissions, carbon markets ...
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Paris 2015: When a Historic Climate Change Agreement Isn't Enough | Thomas White
... In just over a week, representatives from 190 countries will gather for the 21st UN Climate Change Conference in Paris. As the world seems to be waking up to the colossal threat of climate change, religious and world leaders from all over are urging the international community to commit to real, measurable action. With such high expectations, Paris 2015 aims to keep global warming below 2 ...
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Shunning protocol, Obama interviews Alibaba billionaire Ma - Yahoo Finance
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... bit." Ma smiled in response. He said Alibaba had been putting 0.3 percent of the company's total revenue for the past six years toward encouraging young people to find solutions to climate change and other environmental issues. Ma added that he thought it was a "fantastic idea" to invest in clean technology, referring to a recent conversation in which Microsoft Corp. (MSFT.O) co-founder ...
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No new date set for Utah oil lease sale delayed by activists - Yahoo News
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... emboldened by President Barack Obama's killing of the Keystone XL oil pipeline this month say stopping oil and gas drilling on U.S. public lands is their next goal in the fight against climate change. [nL1N1341NF] Activists last week also protested a lease sale in Denver, but that sale went ahead as planned. About 20 percent of the oil and about 14 percent of the natural gas produced in ...
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Big Antarctic ice melt scenarios 'not plausible' - BBC News
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... to sea-level rise this century will be significant and challenging, but that some nightmare scenarios are just not realistic. Their new study models how the polar south will react if greenhouse gases rise at a medium to high rate. The most likely outcome is an input of about 10cm to global waters by 2100. But the prospect of a 30cm-or-more contribution - claimed by some previous research - ...
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Spending Review: Department-by-department cuts guide - BBC News
... offered through the new Universal Credit. Mr Duncan Smith is reported to have threatened to resign over the issue but sources say the dispute is now over. Department for Energy and Climate Change - budget cut agreed Image copyright Reuters Annual budget: 3.9bn Budget increase since 2010: 14.3% Where 2010-2015 increases went: DECC is not a protected department so you would expect its ...
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US, Cuba sign first environmental accord since thaw - Yahoo News
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... habitats in the Gulf of Mexico and South Florida. Scientists from the U.S. and across the world are gathering this week in Havana for the 10th Ocean Sciences Conference to discuss climate change and conservation. "This opens the door to collaborating on many, many fronts so the so-called invisible lines of the Gulf (of Mexico) disappear," said Daniel Whittle, the EDF's senior director for ...
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Britain must move away from coal power stations minister - Yahoo News
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... "It cannot be satisfactory for an advanced economy like the UK to be relying on polluting, carbon intensive 50-year-old coal-fired power stations," Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Amber Rudd will say, according to embargoed excerpts of the speech she will deliver at the Institution of Civil Engineers. Coal-fired power plants provided around one third of Britain's ...
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UK's coal plants 'to be phased out within 10 years' - BBC News
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... new energy system will be "competition-focused," according to Amber Rudd Concerns have also been raised about the costs to consumers of transforming the energy system to help tackle climate change. The government cut renewable energy subsidies earlier this year, which led some to question the government's commitment to tackle climate change. However, the BBC understands that the government ...
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Where are all the climate change songs? - BBC News
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... Paul's rap from Love Song to the Earth. "Mama Earth is in a crazy mess, it's time for us to do our best, from deep sea straight up to Everest," he sings. Then he explains exactly why climate change is a problem, in a way that is at least more succinct than most politicians manage: "Six billion people all want plentiness, some people think this is harmless, but if we continue there'll only be ...
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Earth's underground water quantified - BBC News
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... quickly renewed - on the scale of human lifetimes," explained study leader Tom Gleeson from the University of Victoria. "And yet this modern groundwater is also the most sensitive to climate change and to human contamination. So, it's a vital resource that we need to manage better." Finite resource To quantify just how much water is stored in the top 2km of the Earth's surface, Dr Gleeson's ...
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Spending review: Deal with seven more ministers including Iain Duncan Smith - BBC News
... "a matter for the Treasury," the source added, "agreement has been reached between them on spending." The other departments to have reached agreement with Mr Osborne are Energy and Climate Change, HM Revenue and Customs, the Cabinet Office, the Scotland Office and Office of the Advocate General, the Wales Office and the Northern Ireland Office. They bring to 11 the number of Whitehall ...
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El Nio strengthening, will be among biggest on record: WMO - Yahoo News
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... disaster management campaigns to save lives and minimize economic damage. "However, this event is playing out in uncharted territory. Our planet has altered dramatically because of climate change, the general trend towards a warmer global ocean, the loss of Arctic sea ice and of over a million sq km of summer snow cover in the northern hemisphere," the WMO statement quoted Jarraud as saying. ...
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G20 sticks to goal to boost growth by extra 2 percent despite headwinds - Yahoo News
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... said in a statement on Monday. In their final communique from a summit in Turkey, the leaders of the Group of 20 (G20) also endorsed plans to address the refugee crisis, taxation, climate change, cyber security and inequality, signs the grouping is increasingly willing to widen its focus beyond hard economic issues. "We remain committed to achieving our ambition to lift collective G20 GDP ...
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Unmitigated climate change to shrink global economy by 23 percent, researchers find - Yahoo News
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... Berkeley, California (Reuters) When the world heats up, economies around the globe will cool down. That's according to a new study which predicts that rising temperatures due to climate change will wreak havoc on economic output. "Our best estimate is that the global economy as a whole will be 23 percent smaller in 2100 than if we would avoid climate change entirely," said co-author of the ...
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What's so smart about smart meters? - BBC News
... smart meters? Replace your old gas and electricity meters with natty new digital ones and you could be helping to tackle "the biggest single challenge that humankind has ever faced" - global warming. That's according to veteran environmental campaigner Jonathon Porritt anyway. And you thought smart meters were just about saving a few quid on your gas and electricity bills? Think again. Not ...
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'High impacts' from globally stronger El Nino - BBC News
... says that the implications of the weather system in a warmer world are uncertain. "This event is playing out in uncharted territory. Our planet has altered dramatically because of climate change, the general trend towards a warmer global ocean, the loss of Arctic sea ice and of over a million square km of summer snow cover in the northern hemisphere," said Mr Jarraud. "So this naturally ...
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